Character Quotes

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.

Confucius

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way…you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

He that walketh uprightly walketh surely: but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

Proverbs 10:9

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

John Wooden

Only by acting upon principle in the tests of daily life can we acquire power to stand firm and faithful in the most dangerous and most difficult positions.

Ellen G White

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

A character formed according to the divine likeness is the only treasure that we can take from this world to the next.

Ellen G White

Example has more followers than reason.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

H Norman Schwarzkopf

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Learn to live with yourself, with courage, humility and beauty.

Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

1 Samuel 16:7

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Elbert Green Hubbard

Faith in Christ as a personal Saviour will give strength and solidity to the character.

Ellen G White

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

Proverbs 22:1-29

By the life we live through the grace of Christ, the character is formed. The original loveliness begins to be restored to the soul. The attributes of the character of Christ are imparted, and the image of the Divine begins to shine forth.

Ellen G White

A man’s worth Is in his character.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

None but Christ can fashion anew the character that has been ruined by sin.

Ellen G White

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Thoreau

You can’t control what people say about you, but you can control whether or not it’s true.

Don’t educate your children to be praised and honoured by the world, Educate them to form beautiful characters.

Ellen G White

You can’t control what people say about you, but you can control whether or not it’s true.

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

Ellen G White

Your emotions will be controlled by one of two things: circumstances or character. Focus on developing your character and your circumstances won’t matter.

The grace of Christ in the soul is developing traits of character that are the opposite of selfishness—traits that will refine, ennoble, and enrich the life.

Ellen G White

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away from us.

Humboldt

The character is revealed, not by occasional good deeds and occasional misdeeds, but by the tendency of the habitual words and acts.

Ellen G White

As daylight can be seen through small holes, so do little things show a person’s character.

Butler

The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity is that of a good character.

J Winthrop

The crown and glory of life is character; it is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general good-will, dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society.

Samuel Smiles

Character is like stock in trade; the more of it a man possesses, the greater his facilities for making additions to it; character is power – is influence; it makes friends, creates funds, draws patronage, and support, and opens a sure and easy way to wealth, honour and happiness.

Rev J Hawes

Character is the dearest earthly possession, inasmuch as it is that alone which can secure and render permanent every other. To be without character is to be without honour or friendship in our intercourse with mankind, and without principle or self-approbation in the retirement of our own bosoms.

T Sharp

Man is not the creature but the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power; from the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks, until the architect can make them into something else.

Thomas Carlyle

It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Goethe

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson